Christopher Hitchens Quotes

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.

I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.